This International Holocaust Remembrance Day marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Nazi labor and extermination camp where 1.1 million people were murdered. SS chief Heinrich Himmler was the mastermind of what’s known as the “final solution” the deliberate and systematic plan for the mass murder of the Jewish people

A Holocaust survivor who lived through four concentration camps will return to Auschwitz to mark 80 years since liberation of the notorious Nazi camp.

The World War II extermination of Europe's Jews by Nazi Germany began after the invasion of Poland in 1939 and increased in scale with the creation of death camps.

Naftali Fürst was 12 years old when he was sent to Auschwitz; now, on the 80th anniversary of its liberation, he will return to the Nazi death camp for a ceremony, his fourth visit

Jan. 27, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman joined other elected officials and Jewish community leaders to illuminate the dome of the Theodore

When the Nazi death camp Auschwitz was liberated 80 years ago on Monday, it became clear to the world that the Nazis not only succeeded in murdering most of the European Jewish population, they also intended to erase all traces of their presence, heritage, and legacy. They failed.

Fürst, now 92, is one of a dwindling number of Holocaust survivors able to share ... 1943 – one day after Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler ordered the cessation of the use of the gas chambers ...

On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, survivor Tova Friedman says she thought she was the "only Jewish child in the world".

Furst, now 92, is one of a dwindling number of Holocaust survivors able to share first-person accounts of the horrors they endured, as the world marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazis' most notorious death camp. Furst is returning to Auschwitz for the annual occasion, his fourth trip to the camp.

A dwindling number of Holocaust survivors are able to share first-person accounts of the horrors they endured, as the world marks the 80th anniversary of

The house, until this year, had always been in private hands. A U.S.-based group, the "Counter Extremism Project," has purchased it. Now, in conjunction with the Auschwitz Museum and UNESCO, they have created "The Auschwitz Center on Hate, Extremism and Radicalisation." The home is now open to the public for the first time.

The legal struts of these principles were forged in the Allied-run Nuremberg trials of surviving Nazis, including international law and human rights. Germany’s postwar Basic Law or constitution reflects this in its first paragraph: “Human Dignity is inviolable.” Weinberg was 11 when he learned that his human dignity was very violable.